Originally Posted by
Thomas Hudson
I have seen Non Revs get on MD-88s that were overbooked by 8. Not sure how it all works... the more you understand it, the less it makes sense...
As someone who nonrevs on another airline quite a bit, I've been as low as no. 12 on the list for what was no open seats and still managed to get on the plane.
No-shows, misconnects, etc. make it a very fluid situation. I was just monitoring a flight that I was thinking of taking and it had been overbooked a good bit; however, all revenue standbys plus a decent number of nonrevs cleared.